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Brian Owens @scibri.com · 1h

Damn, this is an awesome hype song for the #BlueJays postseason
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Blue Jays Postseason Anthem: Uno Dos Trey Strikes

YouTube video by Oliver Watson

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Brian Owens @scibri.com · 1h

🎶OK (OK) Blue Jays (Blue Jays)
Let's (Let’s) Play (Play) Ball!
OK (OK) Blue Jays (Blue Jays)
Let's (Let’s) Play (Play) Ball!🎶

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Brian Owens @scibri.com · 1h

🎶Bring on the White Sox.
Bring on the BoSox.
Bring on the Angels, the Rangers, and the Yankees too.
We'll beat the [Guardians].
We'll beat the Tigers.
We'll beat the A's so bad it'll make Billy Blue.
Whaddya want?
Let's play ball.🎶

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Brian Owens @scibri.com · 1h

🎶OK (OK) Blue Jays (Blue Jays)
Let's (Let’s) Play (Play) Ball!
OK (OK) Blue Jays (Blue Jays)
Let's (Let’s) Play (Play) Ball!🎶

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Brian Owens @scibri.com · 1h

🎶It's a beautiful evening, fans.
At the ballpark, when the game starts.
Warm summer breezes, sun's going down.
It's all dark at the ballpark.
That's OK, it's a night game.🎶

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Brian Owens @scibri.com · 1h

🎶OK (OK) Blue Jays (Blue Jays)
Let's (Let’s) Play (Play) Ball!🎶

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Brian Owens @scibri.com · 1h

🎶Is that a fly ball, or is it a seagull?
Coming in, from the lake, just to catch the game.
It's the last inning, our guys are winning.
Dave's put down a smoker, a strike and you got no doubt. (You're out.)
Whaddya want?
Let's play ball.🎶

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Brian Owens @scibri.com · 1h

🎶You've got a diamond.
You've got nine men.
You've got a hat, and a bat, and that's not all.
You got the bleachers, got 'em from spring 'til fall.
You got a dog, and a drink, and an umpire's call.
What do you want?
Let's play ball.🎶

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Kristine @kjay1122.bsky.social · 10h

How it started/how it's going

David Ortiz + young Vlad Jr at the 2010 HR Derby

Daaaaaaa.... Yankees looz! (Ortiz & Vlad post-game after the ALDS)

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Brian Owens @scibri.com · 10h

🎶
Is that a fly ball
Or is it a seagull
Coming in from the lake
Just to catch the game?
It's the last inning
Our guys are winning
Dave's put down a smoker
A strike
And you've got no doubt
(You're out!)
Waddaya want?
Let's play ball!

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Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 16h

I like to think this was just one guy’s CV

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 16h

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Brian Owens @scibri.com · 22h

Brewers, to keep the possibility of a BrewJays WS alive.

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Brian Owens @scibri.com · 1d

It took them 15 innings to beat a team that doesn't even play baseball? I think they might struggle against the Jays then.

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Brian Owens @scibri.com · 2d

Since my order would start with "Montreal-style bagel" I'm just gonna assume I'm finishing last.

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Brian Owens @scibri.com · 2d

Why not do this for everyone?

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Brian Owens @scibri.com · 2d

NB health minister John Dornan has said one reason the province hasn't signed a pharmacare deal is the insurance industry said they would cut coverage of Ozempic. But the industry association told me that isn't true. My story for @chco-tv.bsky.social
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N.B. Health Coalition pushes province to sign pharmacare deal - CHCO TV26

By Brian Owens, Reporter Healthcare campaigners in New Brunswick are pushing the province to join the federal government’s national pharmacare plan, which would provide free coverage for contraceptive...

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Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 3d

A+ headline, no notes.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance Minds International. Continue reading...

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Brian Owens @scibri.com · 3d

And, picking up on your point about finding the right discipline, it took me a while to learn what I'm good at. I'm never going to write a 7000 word New Yorker feature that brings readers to tears. But so far this week I wrote 4 solid 600-800 word news stories, while also working on a longer feature

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Brian Owens @scibri.com · 3d

I am only now, 20 years and two National Magazine Awards into my career, beginning to think of myself as a "good" journalist. And there is no way I would be without those 20 years of work.

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Brian Owens @scibri.com · 3d

Oh god, I've been silently (thank God) judging people who say primm-er for years because I didn't know this.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3d

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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Brian Owens @scibri.com · 3d

Where the hell did Matthews get one of those hats with the ridiculous logo? Surely they were all burned and the ash consigned to a bottomless pit!

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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